But don't forget, don't forget. This is an argument that we've heard about rap music for decades.

Gangster rap has become incredibly popular and profitable by selling lyrics about black on black violence. Now that some of its stars stand accused of doing what they've been rapping about, life seems to be imitating art, so to speak. And the critics are coming out in forme some radio stations and refuse to play the most controversial rap records. Esin the wake of the logic fing verdict and the civil unrest in los angeles, some police officers across the country now say they're feeling threatened by the lyrics of a rap song. Radio

stations such as k a c e in los angeles and w v l s in new york announced

they would no longer play songs they considered negative. You have the right of speech in this concent but you know how to write to yell, fire. In a crowded the they're yelling, shoot when they come toi you that is crowded with guns.

They don't seem to see any connection between the kind of music which they sell for profit, and the kinds of problems we have in american society.

Rap opponents say they're fighting to save a generation. It won't be easy. Last night at the billboard musical wards in hollywood, one of the most foul mouthe rappers, doctor dray, was upheld as one of the best artists of the year. Old

and foul mouthed, doctor dray, what a disgrace. I for one, will never buy mid range headpones from that man. But yer, back in the ninces, people

were saying all the same things about rap music that they're saying now about

drill rap music.